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Daivais exprompta, n. sp. 



Allied to D. similis, much smaller, the pale spots and streaks broader at base 

 of wings, and in the series bounding the cell of secondaries ; the second and third 

 spots of the postcellular series in primaries considerably smaller ; the long cuneiform 

 spot of the outer discal series nearer to apical margin ; wings below altogether paler 

 and less coppery in tint ; expanse of wings, 3 inches 2 lines. 



Ceylon (WenJiam). B. M. 



Dakais tulgaeis, n. sp. 

 Danais meJissa, Doubleday {nee Cramer), List Lep. Brit. Mus., 1, 

 p. 49 ; Geu. Diurn. Lep., p. 92, n. 28. 



Allied to D. similis, altogether smaller, with all the spots paler and smaller, and 

 all the streaks narrower ; the second and third spots of the postcellular series smaller; 

 expanse of wings, 3 inches 3 lines. 



Nepal, Bengal, Singapore, Borneo. B. M. 



Genus PA.NOPEA. 



Panopea peoteacta, n. sp. 



Allied to P. Tarquinia, but much larger, the primaries longer ; the discoidal spots 

 Bmaller, the discal spots double as large, a sub-marginal series of squamose whitish 

 internervular spots or strigulse from sub-apical spots to external angle ; apex minutely 

 white spotted ; patch on internal margin and band of secondaries deeper in colour ; 

 the same wings with a sub-marginal series of squamose whitish strigulfe : body black, 

 white spotted ; primaries below paler than above ; base of costa to rear end of cell 

 dull orange, a discoidal ochreous streak below it ; all the white spots better defined 

 than aboTC, the sub-marginal spots sharply defined merging into sub-apical spots at 

 the upper end of the series ; internal patch whitish, wider than above ; apex and 

 apical costa dull whitish ; secondaries ochreous, becoming gradually brown towards 

 the outer margin, black spots at base as in P. Tarquinia ; a complete sxib-marginal 

 series of elongate-ovate white spots ; body black, white spotted, legs and palpi black 

 above, white below ; expanse of wings, 3 inches 6 lines. 



Cabinda {Monteiro). Type B. M. 



I should have described tins long ago, but we had no examples of 

 P. Tarquinia with which to compare it ; lately, however, Capt. Shelley 

 presented an example taken by liimself at D'Urban ; the two species 

 differ most on the upper surface of the primaries and the under sur- 

 face of the secondaries ; the pattern of the under surface is in fact 

 almost exactly that of P. Lucretia, but the ground colouring of the 

 secondaries, and the colouring of the upper surface, and the form of 

 the primaries, are very diffei'ent. 



P. protraeta is almost as large as P. dithia. 



British Museum : November, 187'L ^ 



